Failed to initialize 3D audio

[General Appo]

Hi.
Last week when I attempted to start EB I got the message "Failed to initialize 3D audio". I did not have time to look into it right then, and since then I have successfully been playing EB on a different computer.
Now however I have returned to the same computer, and I keep getting this message that prevents me from playing my beloved game.
I have never experience any prior problems with EB on this computer, nor have I recently installed or re-installed EB, nor made any sort of changes to my audio system, driver, speakers or anything at all that could possibly have any effect on the initialization of the 3D audio.
I have searched the forums for an answer, and found several threads with people asking roughly the same question, however no clear answer was ever given in any of these threads and I have tried all that was suggested, including checking my 3D system, sound management, cleaning the disk and laser reader, rebooting, just about everything, but it still does not work.
Please help me, I´m going crazy without EB.

[Olaf The Great]

What would 3D audio look like?

[bovi]

Have you checked whether you're missing mss32.dll? It's been reported about 10-20 times by others, so you might want to check. If it's missing, you can get it from the EB FTP.

3D audio means surround, I presume.

[General Appo]

If you read my post you´ll see that I have already checked several threads with people having the same problem, but none of these threads mentioned a solution that has worked for me.
After reading those threads it seems to me that if you miss the mss32.dll you´ll get a message about it, but I have not. Besides, I have played EB for quite some times without any problems, and did not make any changes to the game nor computer before I encountered this problem. Oh well, I´m re-installing now, hope that works, though I don´t see how it will.
But I´ll search for the mss32.dll anyway, just to be sure.

[bovi]

You have of course tried to reboot your computer?

[General Appo]

*sigh* Once again, if you had read my initial post then you would have seen that yes, I have tried to reboot my computer.